The Nation : TMI Cites 17 for Disaster

Three Mile Island nuclear plant’s owners announced disciplinary action against a top manager and 16 other employees in the falsification of records at the Unit 2 reactor before its near-meltdown in 1979. Employees trying to cover up unacceptably high rates of leakage of reactor-cooling water falsified test records, the three utilities that own TMI--near Harrisburg, Pa.--and its operator, GNP Nuclear Corp., said in a report. TMI’s Unit 2 was crippled on March 28, 1979, in the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power accident. The disciplinary actions ranged from written reprimands to loss of two weeks’ pay. No one was fired.